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Message:: [QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 4444460, member: 51347"]I have an Athens Fractional from the Peloponnesian War.  These seem a bit harder to capture: [ATTACH=full]1110572[/ATTACH]Athens (Attica), 454-404 BC, silver hemidrachm, 16mm, 2.08gObverse: Helmeted head of Athena w/ frontal eye r., wearing disc earring and pearl necklaceReverse: Owl w/ wings closed, standing facing between olive branches, Greek 'A-TH-E' (counterclockwise)Reference: Krol 12; HGC 4, 1641; Cop 70; SG 2528Comment: A classical "Athenian owl" hemidrachm from the golden age of Athens - characteristic for the fully facing reverse owl. Appropriately, attributes of the eponymous city's great patron-goddess claim the whole coin. From an Italian collection, formed in the early 1990Ex: Rudnik Numismatics Here is one of NIKE about the same time, but in Sicily [ATTACH=full]1110577[/ATTACH]Sicily, Kamarina. AR litra, 11mm, 0.56g, 9h; c. 461-440/35 BC.Obv.: Nike flying left; below, swan standing left; all within wreath.Rev.: KAMAPI-NAION; Athena standing left, holding spear; at her feet, shield. Reference: Westermark & Jenkins series 2C; SNG ANS 1212-6.Ex: [USER=42773]@John Anthony[/USER][/QUOTE]